About Me

I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Monday, April 6, 2009

Be sure to look at the terrain of Afghanistan where our troops are fighting the Taliban. This video shows a U.S. foot patrol on a mission searching for elements of the Taliban. Watch and see what they encounter.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/qhc6JY1YRJU&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

You wanted something different. Here it is. An Iraqi girl strips for a U.S. convoy in Iraq. Is she a decoy or just giving U.S. troops a break from the other kind of "action?"WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/RusT9xAeumo&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

FOX NEWS and the right wing pundits can talk until they are blue in the face about how "the surge" has been such a success and the Iraq war has been "won," but the latest wave of violence in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq prove otherwise.Four car bombs kill 10 in Baghdad

A car bomb parked in a busy central Baghdad street next to a group of casual laborers queuing for work killed five people and wounded 15, police said.

Two others were parked in two popular markets. One in Husseiniya, on Baghdad's northern outskirts, killed two people and wounded eight. Another in the eastern Sadr City slum killed one person and injured at least five.

A fourth bomb in east Baghdad targeting the convoy of an Interior Ministry official killed two bystanders.

Violence has fallen dramatically in Iraq to levels not seen since late 2003, but militants still retain the ability to carry out large scale bomb attacks, especially in the capital and the northern provinces of Diyala and Nineveh.Twenty people were killed by a car bomb in north Baghdad's district Shaab district on March 26.